Mirror



March ze, 1940.

W. LA HQDNY El' AL IIRROR Original Filed Juno 3, 1937 Patented Mar. 26,1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MIRROR William La Hodny and PaulBertell, Buffalo, N. Y., assignors to Standard Mirror Company, Inc.,Buffalo, N. Y., a corporation of New York Original application June 3,1937, Serial No. 146,219. Divided and this application July 15, 1938,Serial No. 219,376

1 Claim. (Cl. 88-98) This invention relates to a mirror and moreparticularly to a vanity mirror of the type adapted to be attached tothe sun shield of an automobile so that by swinging the sun shield downknown, these sun shields generally comprise a body member I6 made of anysuitable material and usually covered on its opposite faces with fabricI1. The sun shields are usually hinged the mirror is available to thepassengers or to the to the underside of the roof of the automobile 5driver for observing themselves. near the wind shield in a position tobe swung This application is a division of our patent apup against theroof when not in use or to be plication for Mirror, Serial No. 146,219,led June swung down to eliminate the glare of the sun 3, 1937. in thelate afternoon.

10 One of the principal objects of this invention The vanity mirror isadapted to be clipped to 10 is to provide a mirror of substantial facedimenthe free edge of the sun shield in such manner sions but ofrelatively small thickness which can as to be held against the rear orupper face of be readily attached to the sun visor of an autothe sunshield. By this means when it is desired mobile. The sun visors orshields of an automoto use the vanity mirror it is merely necessary bileusually consist of upholstered panels which to swing the sun shielddown, thus exposing the 15 are hinged at one edge to the roof of the carvanity mirror and rendering it accessible for near the wind shield sothat they can be swung use. down to prevent the rays of the sun in thelate The vanity mirror shown comprises a glass afternoon or earlymorning from shining into panel which is shown as being of elongated, H

20 the eyes of the occupants of the front seat of the rounding form andbeveled at its edges as indi- 20 t,

automobile and render the driving uncomfortcated at 2|. 'I'he back ofthis glass plate is silable. In accordance with the present inventionvered, as indicated at 22. This Silverillg Can eX- the mirror panel isbacked by a metal frame to tend over the entire rear face of the glassplate which clips are attached that embrace the sun or it can be appliedonly to selected portions visor so that the vanity mirror can beattached by thereof, as more fully set forth in our said pat- 25 thesimple expedient of slipping the mirror into ent application Ser. No.146,219 for the purposition after which it is held in such positionposes therein stated. It will be understood that by the clips. bysilvering is meant the application of a re- Another object of thepresent invention is to fiective coating either metallic ornon-metallic.

provide such a vanity mirror which is simple and The mirror panel iSheld by a backing plate 3U 30 inexpensive in construction and ofpleasing apwhich is made of metal and has its edges 3| pearance and inwhich the clips are attached to Spun around the bevel 2| of the glaSSPanel 2U the metal back by passing them through the marso as to securelyhold the glass panel. One or ginal portion of the metal back andsecuring more paper sheets or disks 32, 33 are interposed 3;, them tothe inner or concealed face thereof. By between the glass panel 20 andthe backing plate 35 this means the metal back is perfectly flat and 30to form a cushioned mounting for the glass lies snugly against the sunshield and at the same panel The means whereby the mirror assembly timethe clips are rmly secured in a position in is attached to the sunshield I5 comprises a pair which they project outwardly to grasp theedges of clips 35, each being formed to engage under of the sun shield.and clip the lower or free edge of the sun shield 40 Another object ofthe invention is to provide and having an elongated, ilat, attachingportion an economical connection between the clips and 36 which projectsthrough an opening in the the metal mII'Ol back, 17h15 being effected bylower rim 3| of the backing plate and lies beforming eyelets in themetal back which extend tween the glass panel 20 and the backing platethrough Openings provided in the attaching P01" 30. The attachingportions 36 can be secured to 45 tions of the Clips' the backing plate3l) in any suitable manner as In the accompanying dra'wmg by formingthimbles or grommets 31 in the back- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of avanity mirror mg plate, these thimbles extending through made inaccordance w1th our invention and id d th tt h. t. adapted to beattached to the usua1 sun shiem Openmgs prov e m e a a mg por ons 36 5oof an automobile.

Figs. 2 and 3 are sections taken on the correspondingly numbered lineson Fig. 1.

'Ihe vanity mirror is adapted to be attached to the sun shield I5 of anautomobile. As is well and having their forward edges turned over tosecurely unite the two parts. It will be observed that one or more ofthe paper cushioning sheets 32, 33 are cut away at the places at whichthey register with the attaching portions 36 of the 55 S i l i l clipsso as to provide a flat cushioned backing for the glass mirror panel.

From the foregoing it is apparent that the present invention provides anextremely simple and attractive vanity mirror construction which isinexpensive to produce and can be hinged to the sun visor of anautomobile by simply slipping it into position. The construction is alsovery durable and the clips are securely attached in position and at thesame time do not interfere either with the flat application of thevanity mirror to the sun shield or with the flat cushioned mounting forthe glass mirror panel.

We claim as our invention:

A mirror, comprising a glass panel, a reflective coating on the rearface of said panel, a backing plate for said panel and having its edgesspun around the margin of said panel to provide a unitary structurehaving narrow marginal walls,

a pair of spaced clips secured to said backing plate and including datportions interposed between said backing plate and the glass panel andsecured to the front face of said backing plate and portions extendingoutwardly through openings in one of said narrow marginal walls of saidbacking plate and providing reversely bent portions, said reversely bentportions extending toward the centerline of said backing plate and beingdisposed generally parallel with the plane of the backing plate wherebysaid structure can be clipped to the edge of a sun shield or the likeand a cushioning sheet of resilient material interposed between saidglass panel and backing plate, said sheet of resilient material beingcut to lit around the flat portions of said pair of spaced clips.

WILLIAM LA HODNY.

PAUL BERTELL.

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